TOWNIE BOOKS BOOK CLUBS!

Townie Books is now home to 2 distinct book clubs. We host The Rogue Book Club which reads primarily fiction with a few non-fiction titles a year. Rogue Book Club meets the 3rd Wednesday (usually) at 6:30 pm at the bookstore. Our new book club is the No-Nonsense Book Club which reads nonfiction exclusively. No-Nonsense Book Club meets the last Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm at the bookstore. Book Club members receive 10% off the book club titles!

No Nonsense January Pick: Silence by Erling Kagge ​Tuesday, January 29th at 6:30 pm

A transformative account of an experience that is essential for our sanity and our happiness.

There is a solution to the noise, distraction, ceaseless pings and alerts that undermine our patience and disturb our daily equilibrium: silence. What is silence? Where is it? How do we create it? These are the starting points for Erling Kagge’s journey, an adventure that allows him to recount his own experiences (he once spent fifty days walking solo in Antarctica without radio contact) as well as discuss the observations of other poets, artists, and explorers. In this compact and astonishing meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence each of us must create. He shows us the unexpected places it sits—on the dance floor, in the shower, in a musical drop, on a mossy rock—and how silence opens doors to wonder and gratitude. His book pulls you into its mystery.

Rogue Book Club February Pick: Wednesday, Feb. 13th at 6:30 pm

Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends."Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer."

Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit.A kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where Korede works is the bright spot in her life. She dreams of the day when he will realize they're perfect for each other. But one day Ayoola shows up to the hospital uninvited and he takes notice. When he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and what she will do about it.Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite has written a deliciously deadly debut that's as fun as it is frightening.

No Nonsense February Pick: Meeting Tuesday, February 26th at 6:30 p.m.

"This book reads like a thriller, but it's a true, important, and inspiring real story. Bill Browder is an amazing moral crusader, and his book is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand Russia, Putin, or the challenges of doing business in the world today." - Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators

Browder became one of the world's most successful capitalists, and he describes his rollicking ride making billions in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. He details how he exposed corruption and battled oligarchs along the way, until the Putin regime turned on him. After his own lawyer was murdered, Browder dropped everything to become a full-time human rights campaigner.